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It’s very straightforward to look again on the final 25 years of The Simpsons and write it off as being garbage as a result of, properly, for probably the most half it has been precisely that. But typically, just like the solar shining by for an hour between passing storms, it might probably nonetheless get its shit collectively, and the upcoming tribute to Death Note appears like a type of uncommon events.
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It’s a part of the present’s subsequent Treehouse of Horror Halloween compilation, and can give The Simpsons a full anime makeover for one of many episode’s instalments. You can see it in motion on this brief video beneath, which introduces Lisa because the recipient of the Death Note (or, because it’s referred to as right here, the Death Tome):
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Some screenshots have additionally been launched, giving us an excellent have a look at anime Homer and Marge as properly:
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If your first thought was, “Wow, that looks a lot better than I was expecting,” you aren’t alone! But there’s an excellent cause this appears so genuine to the supply materials: this phase has been animated by Korean studio DR Movie, who’ve a protracted historical past of serving to out behind the scenes on numerous American and Japanese properties. These have ranged from The Animatrix to Justice League to, most significantly on this case, the Death Note anime collection itself.
The episode will air on October 30, and would be the second of three segments. The different two shall be a Babadook homage starring Marge, and a Westworld parody. Which is bizarre, given The Simpsons has already executed a Westworld factor, one which lasted a complete episode, and is without doubt one of the collection’ all-time greats. But I assume 1994 was lengthy sufficient in the past (and the trendy HBO collection so completely different) that they really feel like they will do it over again and newer viewers gained’t even discover.
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UPDATE: Turns on the market’s a VERY lengthy and funky historical past to this, with its origins courting again to fanart drawn in 2008,as identified by Turbotastic within the feedback!
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